Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Evil is there; cruel rule and deceit are ever in the streets.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
Holman Bible
oppression and deceit never leave its marketplace.
International Standard Version
Wickedness is at the center of it; fraud and lies never leave its streets.
A Conservative Version
Wickedness is in the midst of it. Oppression and deceit depart not from its streets.
American Standard Version
Wickedness is in the midst thereof: Oppression and guile depart not from its streets.
Amplified
Destruction is within her;
Oppression and deceit do not depart from her streets and market places.
Darby Translation
Perversities are in the midst thereof; and oppression and deceit depart not from its streets.
Julia Smith Translation
Mischief in her midst: oppression and deceit will not depart from her wide place.
King James 2000
Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Destruction [is] within it, and oppression and deceit do not depart from its public square.
Modern King James verseion
Covetings are in her midst; oppression and guile will not depart from her streets.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Wickedness is therein; deceit and guile go not out of her streets.
NET Bible
Disaster is within it; violence and deceit do not depart from its public square.
New Heart English Bible
Destructive forces are within her. Threats and lies do not depart from her streets.
The Emphasized Bible
Engulfing ruin, is in her midst, And there depart not from her broadway, oppression and deceit.
Webster
Wickedness is in the midst of it: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
World English Bible
Destructive forces are within her. Threats and lies don't depart from her streets.
Youngs Literal Translation
Mischiefs are in its midst. Fraud and deceit depart not from its street.
References
Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 55:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
Betrayal By A Friend
10 By day and night they go round the town, on the walls; trouble and sorrow are in the heart of it. 11 Evil is there; cruel rule and deceit are ever in the streets. 12 For it was not my hater who said evil of me; that would have been no grief to me; it was not one outside the number of my friends who made himself strong against me, or I would have kept myself from him in a secret place;
Cross References
Psalm 10:7
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and false words: under his tongue are evil purposes and dark thoughts.
Psalm 5:9
For no faith may be put in their words; their inner part is nothing but evil; their throat is like an open place for the dead; smooth are the words of their tongues.
Psalm 109:2-3
For the mouth of the sinner is open against me in deceit: his tongue has said false things against me.
Isaiah 59:7
Their feet go quickly to evil, and they take delight in the death of the upright; their thoughts are thoughts of sin; wasting and destruction are in their ways.
Jeremiah 5:26-27
For there are sinners among my people: they keep watch, like men watching for birds; they put a net and take men in it.
Jeremiah 9:3-5
Their tongues are bent like a bow to send out false words: they have become strong in the land, but not for good faith: they go on from evil to evil, and they have no knowledge of me, says the Lord.
Ezekiel 22:1-12
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Matthew 26:4
And they made designs together to take Jesus by some trick, and put him to death.
Acts 7:51-52
You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.